Early 20th Century Decorative Art

Antique Persian Heriz Karaja Oriental rug, size 4'4" x 3'6". An antique Persian Heriz Karaja oriental rug, size 4'4" x 3'6", circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug fea...

Fabulously large and fine example of the work of the well-known decorator Bert Bentley. Very few portrait medallions of this size were made, in all the time that Wedgwood has been making portrait medallions. Priestly's advocacy for free speech and freedom of religion...

2 wall plates WMF Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty year: 1909 Country: Germany Materials: silver plated Several of the WMF objects can be seen in museums. We have specialize...

The painter Emil Fiala (8.9.1896 Prossnitz - Mähren Czech Republic - Dec. 1960 Vienna) studied at the Viennese Academy by Franz Rumpler, August Eisenmenger, Julius Schmid, Christian ...

Pair of antique Emanuel Sweert Florilegium floral botany plant bulb engravings. Plates 32 and 67. 32. Pancralim orientals, pancratium occidentalis. 67. Narc. Promont. bona fpei...

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya Photogravure Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84 From The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe...

French majolica plate with flowers & butterfly, circa 1900.

Great map of The South Eastern States Original color. Good condition Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

French majolica plate with flowers & butterfly, circa 1900.

Chromolithograph titled 'Mr. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt'. Lithograph of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. a wealthy American businessman, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. A sportsman, he participated in and pioneered a number of related endeavors. He died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania...

French majolica plate with flowers & butterfly, circa 1900.

This is a amazing and unique set of 511 antique French handmade ceramic tiles. Manufactured by Devres, circa 1910s. Stylized design. Each patte...

A very stylish German Jugendstil iron industrial style owl wall hanging match box holder designed by Hugo Berger for Goberg and dating from around 191...

Montague Dawson: Racing Six-Metre yachts, goache on paper showing a yacht number 6/18, running before the wind with ‘goosewinged’ sails as she leads three other six-meter yachts. Sig...

Signed Oil on Canvas by Jean Hubert Gautier (1872-1930). Nice heavy impasto technique of a classic french riverscape. The composition includes heavy clouds with a basilica in the bac...

French Majolica poppies plate signed Luneville, circa 1910.

Trout & Salmon pictures by Douglas Adams. A pair of coloured fishing engravings by Douglas Adams. Both angling pictures framed in original old frames and titled, Salmon Fishing - A ...

A very beautiful and rare set of three (s) antique French plates made exclusively for Bonwit Teller New York, circa early-20th century, France. Bo...

Great map of British Columbia Unframed Original color By John Bartholomew and Co. Edinburgh Geographical Institute Published, circa 1920 ...

Great map of The United Kingdom Unframed Original color By John Bartholomew and Co. Edinburgh Geographical Institute Published, circa 1920 Free shipping.    

Great map of Texas and adjacent States Original color. Good condition Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

Great map of Spain Original color. Good condition Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

Great map of India Original color. Good condition / repair to some minor damage just above Sri Lanka. Shown in the last image. Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

Fabulous monochrome map with red outline color Original color By Rand, McNally & Co. Published, circa 1900 Unframed Repairs to minor edge tears.

1 of the 40 amazing set handmade tiles in rich brown green and bright blue colors. Each tile is divided into four faces. Manufactured around 1920 by Gilliot Frères, Hemiksem, Belgium...

1st Quarter of the 20th century Tibetan rug with a large-scale dragon motif. The wool is soft, Texture and patina are fabulous. Can also make for a suitable wall hanging. Measure...

Antique hand-painted and handcrafted Moroccan ceramic bowl or wall art decorative plate, Large Moroccan ceramic bowl handcrafted in Fez by artisans. Hand painted Moorish ceramic pla...

This is a beautifully painted KPM porcelain plaque after the famous painting of the Madonna of the Chair or Madonna della Sedia by Raphael, which was originally painted 1513-1514. Ma...

Original oil on canvas landscape with two cows in pond with lilly pads. Signed and dated P. St. 1912. Artist: Poul Steffensen (b. Bjerringbro 1866, ...

This is a hand painted KPM style rectangular plaque of the Sistine Madonna framed in a wall brass holy water font. The brass frame depicts three arcs, two small semicircular in the s...

Chromolithograph titled 'In the Clouds'. Lithograph of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim g...

This rather eccentric early 20th Century wall plate has a fine matte glaze. At first sight it looks innocent and geometric, but upon further 'research' is becomes clear what the artist wants to show us. On the floor of this green ceramic plate...

A late 19th or early 20th Century monumental color print by French artist Henri Riviere (1864 - 1951). The print shows a man and his horse in the French countryside, haystacks visibl...

Antique Persian Sarouk Oriental Rug with Floral Design, circa 1920 in Small Size An antique Persian Sarouk oriental rug, size 4'0" x 2'1", circa 1920. This lovely hand-knotted wool ...

H Heyligers (Dutch, 1877-1967) Impressionist Scene Women In The Street Elegant impresionist scene by the duch painter H Heyligers.With original frame in good condition.Size:97x81 cm...

Hewn from pine and held together with handmade iron nails, this provincial wooden wheel is a remarkable example of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. Its monumental scale suggests it...

Richard Durando-Togo is a painter of Argentine origin who spent most of his life in Italy and France, in the latter country he settled permanently in 1934. He is a self-taught artist...

This vintage poster comes from European Advertising throughout the years of 1920. 1930, and 1940. Pictured above is a woman surrounded by a bunch of furry friends.

Hewn from pine and held together with iron hardware, this provincial wooden wheel is a remarkable example of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. Its monumental scale suggests it was u...

JOSÉ FELIPE ABÁRZUZA RODRÍGUEZ DE ARIAS (Cádiz, 1871-Puerto Real, 1948). "Moors at Dusk". Oil on canvas. On the lower part there is a plaque with the artist's name and title. Frame f...

Hewn from pine and held together with handmade iron nails, this provincial wooden wheel is a remarkable example of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. Its monumental scale suggests it...

Currently on loan to The David Roche Foundation for their exhibition "Josiah Wedgwood - Master Potter to the Universe". Daisy Makeig Jones’ description relates this to Völuspá, a poem from the Poetic Edda, which is a collection of Old Norse poems. In Völuspá, it is said that the dwarves were created by the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda, and that they were condemned to live underground. The Light Elves are also mentioned in the poem as being allowed to live in the realm of Alfheim, which is a place of beauty and light. In Norse mythology...

1st Quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a large-scale dragon motif. The wool is soft, Texture and patina are fabulous. Can also make for a suitable wall hanging. Measure...

Carved giltwood wall torchere candle holder, Italy, 19th century-1930s Hand-carved gold gilt wood candlestick sconce with wrought iron details. This w...

Exceptional antique framed portrait of a gentleman in a suit. Features a wooden frame.   

French Majolica Poppies Plate Luneville, Circa 1910.

German Majolica Cherries plate, Circa 1900.

A beautiful Italian grand Tour Style Pietra Dura mosaic on marble Plaque with gilt framing. Picture is a bird on branch with leaves and flowers.

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Stylish and perfectly handcrafted pair of classical Art Deco picture or photo frames. If you are looking for the perfect picture frames for a pair of photos of your children or of...

An impressive set of corboda leather wall panels by Dutch Artist Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, made around 1920. The collection holds a total of 17 artworks...

Large French Majolica Platter Swan in a Pond Orchies Circa 1900.

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of antique circa 1920’s Chinese Export hand painted on silk paintings depicting a Geisha girl and a floral scene with butterfly. A very good looking and beautifully painted pair, they were made for the export market during the British colonialism...

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn. In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya. Photogravure. Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84. From The Complete ...

French Majolica orchid plate signed Keller and Guerin saint clement, circa 1900.

Painted wooden advertising typhoo tea Sign. An extra large 9.5-foot reclaimed solid wood advertising sign for Typhoo tea. Dates to the early 20th c...

Small faience fish shape dish or platter Desvres circa 1910. Decorated with a coat of arms.

Very rare painting oil on canvas by the artist William Langley Title “View of Menton Cap Martin” It depicts a beautiful view of the French Riviera, in particular Cap Martin-Menton O...